Word: art
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Flemish paintings now on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum form one of the most notable collections which have been brought together at Harvard. They follow the history of the art of Flanders from the beginnings of the Renaissance until it was superseded by Italian ideals in the middle of the sixteenth century. There are examples of nearly every Flemish master during this period--Mabuse, van der Weyden, Memlic and their contemporaries. These pictures compare interestingly with the Italian artists in the same room. The Southern painters strive for idealism and for decorative perfection. The Flemings care more for reality...
Professor George Harold Edgell '09, of the Fine Arts Department, will hold a conference on the paintings this afternoon at 3.30. These conferences are always interesting and valuable. They attract art-lovers from all parts of the state. A little information learned in this way will add greatly to our appreciation of every form of painting...
...special loan exhibition of Flemish paintings at the Fogg Art Museum will continue through November 29. The exhibition is intended to cover in an unusual way the field of early Flemish painting and examples are being shown by the various mediaeval and Renaissance masters of Flanders...
...transition to the art of the third period, there are two striking portraits of Senor and Senora del Rio, by Antonio Moro; and finally, the art of the 17th century shown by the great master of the period, Peter Paul Rubens, by whom there are two paintings in the exhibition. To illustrate Van Dyck, the Museum has on exhibition its well-known "Portrait of Nicolas Triest...
...better furnish the collection and at the same time to represent superb examples of the Flemish art, there are a number of large and important tapestries...